If you love cozy mysteries then this collection of free and hot new release mystery books and audiobooks will whet your appetite for the weekend ahead.

Please be sure to double check that the free books are still free when you download them as the free promotions are for short periods only. If you see a book that you like that isn't free, then why not ask your local library to stock the book for you for free. You just need to request the ebook, audiobook, or print book for you and you can find the ASIN number in the product details on Amazon.

***AMAZON ARE GIVING AWAY TWO MONTHS OF KINDLE UNLIMITED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS SO WHY NOT SCROLL DOWN TO THE HOT NEW RELEASE AND KINDLE UNLIMITED SECTIONS FOR EVEN MORE FREE COZIES!***

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​Friday Live Stream Hangout

Join me live on Facebook every Friday, 8pm UK time (or as soon as I send out Free Book Friday) for book chat, virtual coffee, and news. An informal hangout where you can get to know other readers and ask me anything you like.

​Get My Audiobooks for Free

​I do have a limited number of audiobook codes that I can give away to fans of my books if you would like to review my audiobook versions. All you need to do is message me here and let me know whether you have a preference for a particular audiobook (you can try them all, but please don't waste codes if you won't genuinely use them) and whether you prefer the UK or US Audible store. You don't need to be based in the UK or US but you do need to decide which of those two stores you want to get your download from.

New! Swag in the Merch Store!

​You can now get my t-shirts and hoodies on Amazon and from my own store (not Amazon). In time I'll be adding more designs like 'Dead on Doughnuts' and 'Cupcaked Crime' linked to my book titles. Another way you can support Free Book Friday should you wish to. Plenty of sizes and colours available for each design. It might take a little while for the designs to go live across different products and countries right now due to Amazon being busy with Coronavirus things. These are from my Bertram Bile series, apart from the first one which you might recognise as me with my three naughty kittens and my dog Isla.

Audiobooks That Are Discounted When You get the Ebook. These are Available for Free on Audible and From Your Local Library. Or Use the Free Audible Trial

​​Cozy Mystery Book Explorer Group on Facebook

This Facebook group has been set up for you, so that you can share any book reviews or chat about your favourite books with other cozy mystery readers. It is your community to chat about all things cozy mystery.

​Hot New Releases That You Can Order for Free from Your Local Library. Some Are Also Available in Kindle Unlimited.

​A Different Kind of Freebie You Might Like? £2000 Worth of Stocks for £1

If you are frugal person like I am then you probably like to grab a bargain. Coronavirus has massively hit the stock market and stocks are around the same price as they were in the 1990s. I've been using a free app called Trading212 to grab up to £2000 worth of stock by opening an account for £1. I basically invited 20 friends to use my friend referral link and each friend got a stock and I received 20 stocks in total which I plan to keep forever as they each pay a small dividend every few months. Yesterday I received 35p for having a Microsoft stock that I got for free. I used the £1 that I put in to open the account to buy 'fractional shares' for 5p each in other 100 other dividend paying stock and used the 35p from this month's Microsoft dividend to buy more fractional shares. My plan is to use the stock and dividends to fund my old age by living off the dividend payments each month eventually. Plus the stock will continue to go up in value over time. I think the Trading212 app and friend referral only works for the UK, but there are similar setups for Webull and Robinhood if you are in the US, and I believe that Webull gives you two free stocks worth up to £1400 when you open a free account. With Robinhood you can get up to $1000 worth of free stocks. So it is definitely worth looking into if you need some extra cash long term, or for retirement, plus you can always sell the free stock and take out the money if you want to.

​Special Offer Collections on Bookfunnel

​Support Free Book Friday

As a thank you, Patrons get all of my ebooks and audiobooks for free before anyone else, as well as your name in the acknowledgement section of upcoming books, and extra swag from time to time. You can also receive signed, limited edition print book copies of all new print books each month.

Your support helps to cover the cost of Mailerlite, Bookfunnel, and other website software and means that because of you, over 3000 people receive free books every single weekend!

​Watch Me Put Free Book Friday Together in Real Time Every Friday

My Children's Charity Oceans Project

Royalties from my books and Kindle Unlimited page reads, as well as money raised through Amazon Smile UK is used by my UK registered charity Oceans Project. These funds provide environmental and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) education expeditions for young people aged 5-25 from around the world who are disadvantaged due to gender, poverty, war, disability, natural disaster, or isolation. Expeditions include shark conservation in Belize, climate change research in the Canadian Arctic, coral reef conservation in Australia, and Amazon River conservation in Ecuador. In the future I plan to organise one off expeditions for my readers to join me on similar citizen science expeditions.

Currently Watching on Netflix

​If you love cozy mysteries then this collection of free and hot new release mystery books and audiobooks will whet your appetite for the weekend ahead.

Please be sure to double check that the free books are still free when you download them as the free promotions are for short periods only. If you see a book that you like that isn't free, then why not ask your local library to stock the book for you for free. You just need to request the ebook, audiobook, or print book for you and you can find the ASIN number in the product details on Amazon.

Free Short Story - Extra! Set Me a Saturday Challenge

I would love for you to send me ideas for a cozy mystery short story (7500-10,000 words) that I can write live on air on my YouTube channel tomorrow (Saturday). I plan to make this a regular thing each weekend, with a different theme each week. Once the story is finished I'll send it to you by email. My theme for the first weekend will be my three naughty kittens Ozzy, Artemis, and Esa. This should help me to improve as a writer and once I have enough stories, I'll pop them into a book of short stories and upload them to Amazon, so you'll be able to get the whole collection for free as an ebook once finished. This should be a lot of fun!

​Free Collections on Bookfunnel

Grab My Books for Free on Saturday Only

​Friday Live Stream Hangout

​Join me live on Facebook every Friday, 8pm UK time for book chat, virtual coffee, and news. An informal hangout where you can get to know other readers and ask me anything you like

​Get My Audiobooks for Free

I do have a limited number of audiobook codes that I can give away to fans of my books if you would like to review my audiobook versions. All you need to do is message me here and let me know whether you have a preference for a particular audiobook (you can try them all, but please don't waste codes if you won't genuinely use them) and whether you prefer the UK or US Audible store. You don't need to be based in the UK or US but you do need to decide which of those two stores you want to get your download from.

New! T-shirts & Hoodies

You can now get my t-shirts and hoodies on Amazon and in time I'll be adding more designs like 'Dead on Doughnuts' and 'Cupcaked Crime' linked to my books. Another way you can support Free Book Friday should you wish to. Plenty of sizes and colours available for each design. It might take a little while for the designs to go live across different products and countries right now due to Amazon being busy with Coronavirus things. These are from my Bertram Bile series, apart from the first one which you might recognise as me with my three naughty kittens and my dog Isla.

Audiobooks That Are Discounted When You get the Ebook. These are Available for Free on Audible and From Your Local Library. Or Use the Free Audible Trial

​Cozy Mystery Book Explorer Group on Facebook

​This Facebook group has been set up for you, so that you can share any book reviews or chat about your favourite books with other cozy mystery readers. It is your community to chat about all things cozy mystery.

Hot New Releases That You Can Order for Free from Your Local Library. Some Are Also Available in Kindle Unlimited.

A Different Kind of Freebie You Might Like?

If you are frugal person like I am then you probably like to grab a bargain. Coronavirus has massively hit the stock market and stocks are around the same price as they were in the 1990s. I've been using a free app called Trading212 to grab up to £2000 worth of stock by opening an account for £1. I basically invited 20 friends to use my friend referral link and each friend got a stock and I received 20 stocks in total which I plan to keep forever as they each pay a small dividend every few months. Yesterday I received 35p for having a Microsoft stock that I got for free. I used the £1 that I put in to open the account to buy 'fractional shares' for 5p each in other 100 other dividend paying stock and used the 35p from this month's Microsoft dividend to buy more fractional shares. My plan is to use the stock and dividends to fund my old age by living off the dividend payments each month eventually. Plus the stock will continue to go up in value over time. I think the Trading212 app and friend referral only works for the UK, but there are similar setups for Webull and Robinhood if you are in the US, and I believe that Webull gives you two free stocks worth up to £1400 when you open a free account. With Robinhood you can get up to $1000 worth of free stocks. So it is definitely worth looking into if you need some extra cash long term, or for retirement, plus you can always sell the free stock and take out the money if you want to.

​Special Offer Collections on Bookfunnel

​Support Free Book Friday

As a thank you, Patrons get all of my ebooks and audiobooks for free before anyone else, as well as your name in the acknowledgement section of upcoming books, and extra swag from time to time. You can also receive signed, limited edition print book copies of all new print books each month.

Your support helps to cover the cost of Mailerlite, Bookfunnel, and other website software and means that because of you, over 3000 people receive free books every single weekend!

Watch Me Put Free Book Friday Together in Real Time Every Friday

​My Children's Charity Oceans Project

Royalties from my books and Kindle Unlimited page reads, as well as money raised through Amazon Smile UK is used by my UK registered charity Oceans Project. These funds provide environmental and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) education expeditions for young people aged 5-25 from around the world who are disadvantaged due to gender, poverty, war, disability, natural disaster, or isolation. Expeditions include shark conservation in Belize, climate change research in the Canadian Arctic, coral reef conservation in Australia, and Amazon River conservation in Ecuador. In the future I plan to organise one off expeditions for my readers to join me on similar citizen science expeditions.

​See if You Can Spot me in this Brand New Series from Netflix - Tonight: 20th March!

​If you love cozy mysteries then this collection of free and hot new release mystery books and audiobooks will whet your appetite for the weekend ahead.

Please be sure to double check that the free books are still free when you download them as the free promotions are for short periods only. If you see a book that you like that isn't free, then why not ask your local library to stock the book for you for free. You just need to request the ebook, audiobook, or print book for you and you can find the ASIN number in the product details on Amazon.

​Free Books to Download

​* Don't forget to double check that the book is still on a free promotion so you don't get charged.

​​Free Collections on Bookfunnel

​​Grab My Books for Free on Saturday Only

​Friday Live Stream Hangout

​Join me live on Facebook every Friday, 8pm UK time for book chat, virtual coffee, and news. An informal hangout where you can get to know other readers and ask me anything you like

​Get My Audiobooks for Free

​I do have a limited number of audiobook codes that I can give away to fans of my books if you would like to review my audiobook versions. All you need to do is message me here and let me know whether you have a preference for a particular audiobook (you can try them all, but please don't waste codes if you won't genuinely use them) and whether you prefer the UK or US Audible store. You don't need to be based in the UK or US but you do need to decide which of those two stores you want to get your download from.

​Audiobooks That Are Discounted When You get the Ebook. These are Available for Free on Audible and From Your Local Library. Or Use the Free Audible Trial

​Cozy Mystery Book Explorer Group on Facebook

​This Facebook group has been set up for you, so that you can share any book reviews or chat about your favourite books with other cozy mystery readers. It is your community to chat about all things cozy mystery.

​Special Offer Collections on Bookfunnel

​Support Free Book Friday

As a thank you, Patrons get all of my ebooks and audiobooks for free before anyone else, as well as your name in the acknowledgement section of upcoming books, and extra swag from time to time. You can also receive signed, limited edition print book copies of all new print books each month.

Your support helps to cover the cost of Mailerlite, Bookfunnel, and other website software and means that because of you, over 3000 people receive free books every single weekend!

Watch Me Write Live

​My Children's Charity Oceans Project

​Royalties from my books and Kindle Unlimited page reads, as well as money raised through Amazon Smile UK is used by my UK registered charity Oceans Project. These funds provide environmental and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) education expeditions for young people aged 5-25 from around the world who are disadvantaged due to gender, poverty, war, disability, natural disaster, or isolation. Expeditions include shark conservation in Belize, climate change research in the Canadian Arctic, coral reef conservation in Australia, and Amazon River conservation in Ecuador. In the future I plan to organise one off expeditions for my readers to join me on similar citizen science expeditions.

See if You Can Spot me in this Brand New Series from Netflix - 20th March!

​If you love cozy mysteries then this collection of free and hot new release mystery books and audiobooks will whet your appetite for the weekend ahead.

Please be sure to double check that the free books are still free when you download them as the free promotions are for short periods only. If you see a book that you like that isn't free, then why not ask your local library to stock the book for you for free. You just need to request the ebook, audiobook, or print book for you and you can find the ASIN number in the product details on Amazon.

​Free Books to Download

​* Don't forget to double check that the book is still on a free promotion so you don't get charged.

​Free Collections on Bookfunnel

​Grab My Books for Free on Saturday Only

​Friday Live Stream Hangout

​Join me live on Facebook every Friday, 8pm UK time for book chat, virtual coffee, and news. An informal hangout where you can get to know other readers and ask me anything you like

​Get My Audiobooks for Free

I do have a limited number of audiobook codes that I can give away to fans of my books if you would like to review my audiobook versions. All you need to do is message me here and let me know whether you have a preference for a particular audiobook (you can try them all, but please don't waste codes if you won't genuinely use them) and whether you prefer the UK or US Audible store. You don't need to be based in the UK or US but you do need to decide which of those two stores you want to get your download from.

Audiobooks That Are Discounted When You get the Ebook. These are Available for Free on Audible and From Your Local Library. Or Use the Free Audible Trial

​Cozy Mystery Book Explorer Group on Facebook

​This Facebook group has been set up for you, so that you can share any book reviews or chat about your favourite books with other cozy mystery readers. It is your community to chat about all things cozy mystery.

​Annual #cozymysteryday 15th September

​Every year on Agatha Christie's birthday the world celebrates everything cozy with #cozymysteryday

Hot New Releases That You Can Order for Free from Your Local Library. Some Are Also Available in Kindle Unlimited.

Veteran nurse Mercedes “Mercy” Mares didn’t ask for a change in plans, but after the hospital lays her off, she’s forced into it. Lucky for her, she has friends in high places.

When her best friend offers her a job at her new traveling nurse agency, Mercy jumps at the chance to see the world and meet new people. Unfortunately, her first assignment is anything but something to write home about.

The patient is an eccentric billionaire with about as much charisma as a fruit fly and a few too many quirks for her taste. Throw in his family, employees, and a cesspool of greedy associates, and this assignment is a disaster.

When one of them is found facedown in the Olympic pool, a few hours after a not-so-friendly exchange with Mercy, her visions of living the high life and escaping to exotic locations are dashed. If she doesn’t find the killer quick, she just may earn an all-expense paid trip to the slammer.

Find out how quickly Mercy’s life changes when she least expects it in the humorous cozy mystery prequel to the 12-book Mercy Mares Mystery Series!

​Special Offer Collections on Bookfunnel

​Support Free Book Friday

As a thank you, Patrons get all of my ebooks and audiobooks for free before anyone else, as well as your name in the acknowledgement section of upcoming books, and extra swag from time to time. You can also receive signed, limited edition print book copies of all new print books each month.

Your support helps to cover the cost of Mailerlite, Bookfunnel, and other website software and means that because of you, over 3000 people receive free books every single weekend!

​My Children's Charity Oceans Project

​Royalties from my books and Kindle Unlimited page reads, as well as money raised through Amazon Smile UK is used by my UK registered charity Oceans Project. These funds provide environmental and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Maths) education expeditions for young people aged 5-25 from around the world who are disadvantaged due to gender, poverty, war, disability, natural disaster, or isolation. Expeditions include shark conservation in Belize, climate change research in the Canadian Arctic, coral reef conservation in Australia, and Amazon River conservation in Ecuador. In the future I plan to organise one off expeditions for my readers to join me on similar citizen science expeditions.

We've had a lot of storm force weather here in the north east of England but I've been determined to potter in some sunlight wherever possible. Last week I had a spring clean and found anything I didn't need and sold it on Facebook Marketplace and the pawn shop in town. I didn't have a lot of stuff but I still managed to net myself about £40-50 in all, which I had fun investing in seeds and garden things ready to grow my own fruit and vegetables to try and save on my grocery shopping bills. It's a bit too cold and risky to plant anything outdoors yet and we'll likely have snow at some point before the end of March. So I'm really just doing prep things right now. But I hope to plant things outdoors the last week of March and onwards weather depending.

Putting up the Screen

When I moved into the property in August 2019, I purchased one of these screens from Amazon for £19.95 (cheaper in August I think but included delivery and very good quality compared to others I looked at) and was very pleased with how it looked in my yard. I live in a pretty rough neighbourhood, I've had windows smashed in over New Year, watched a police man chase a suspect up over my fence and the security gate at the back, and most of the walls around me are covered in glass to deter burglars and the likes. But I'm determined to create as much of an outdoor oasis as I can so I can at least get a bit of vitamin D during the day come summer, and then take things with me when I hope to move to my forever home late October.

​Sadly the screen I put up in August got pretty damaged during the big storms, and I'd like to make it just a bit higher, so I decided to order a second screen, exactly the same as the first one, and once the wind stops I'll attach it to the first one. I had one attempt in the wind but there was too much debris flying about as there's a lot of litter on the pavements. But even the first screen has made a huge difference to how secure and private the yard feels (very important when I had my dog before she did last month) and it certainly looks a lot nicer than the wall of graffiti and glass behind.

​When I first moved in I also purchased a luxury item of a swing seat which was about £20 from Argos (I had to remove the protective cover to prevent it flying away!), and I hope to get to sit on that this summer when I sit outside to write. I can only really sit out when there's no one around as the kids have a tendency to throw stuff over the wall and that really isn't nice when you are sat there and suddenly get covered in McDonalds milkshake or cans of pop or whatever. It seems to be what they do around here and I think shouting at them will likely make things worse.

Sourcing Seeds and Seed Potatoes

But with the weather very windy, I decided instead, to plant up the first of my seeds. I did a bit of shopping around and found a great selection for 29p per pack from Lidl, 25p per pack from Wilko, and I got a few 'collections' of 6 packs from Poundland. I was pretty surprised at what Poundland had, to be honest, as I also managed to get some fruit bushes for £1 each (gooseberry, blackcurrant, raspberry, and blueberry) and a box of potato and veg fertilser for £1 which was much cheaper than I'd seen it at Wilko and elsewhere. I also picked up some seed potatoes from Wilkos for £1 each, along with ginger, rhubarb, asparagus, onions, and strawberry plants for £1 each. I can plant the potatoes and onions now, but I'm waiting on the potato growing bags I ordered from Amazon (£4.78 for a pack of two that you can access from the side via flaps) to arrive, which should be this week some time. I also ordered a large bag of compost from Amazon for £14.99 for 80Litres and picked up a smaller bag of compost and seed trays from Wilko for £1. I'm pretty sure that there are much better offers available for compost, especially supermarkets that seem to be doing two big bags for £5 but I don't have a car and they would be too large for me to carry home on my own. But it goes to show that it really is worth shopping around. The same species of seeds certainly varied a lot from one place to the next.

I'm really pleased with what I managed to get for my small budget and I think it will definitely save me money in the longer term and help me to eat more healthy whilst enjoying pottering around in the garden between writing chapters. I somehow managed to get a couple of packs stuck together so I ended up with double on some seed packs from Lidl but that's not the end of the world. I still have a few more types of fruit and veg on my wish list to keep an eye out for, but I'm interested to see how different species or brands of the same or similar things do in the same conditions. For things like lettuce, I'll be planting seeds on a regular basis so I have a constant supply, and potatoes and onions and carrots should see me through winter at my new place when I eventually move. It's all a bit of an experiment in frugality so I'm very excited to see what happens, especially as I'm not someone with green fingers. I did pick up some flower seeds and I hope these will help to minimise the smell of pollution and dust in the summer and attract some butterflies and bees as there isn't much green around me, save for the graveyard at the end of the road which doesn't have flowers just grass and trees. I'll be able to pretend I'm in a lovely garden if my plan works and that will be great for sitting on the swing seat writing on the hot days.

What Seeds and Things Did I Get?

Stuttgart's Onions (accidentally got these as seeds and as starter onions but will be good for researching which is best)

Delikatez Cucumber

Berlikumer carrots

Decarentan Leek

Moneymaker Tomato (ended up with some repeats as these were in the packs of six after I purchased them on their own as a pack)

Marmande tomato

Bolero Marigolds

Bijou sweet pea mix (sweet peas were my granddad's favourite so I got these in memory of him)

Sweet pea mix

Simple basil (had an extra pack stuck to the back of a different seed pack)

Lavender (I need more lavender in my life, I love the stuff and I especially love lavendar tea!)

Agastache

Echinops

Forget me knot

Candytuft

Red poppies

Cornflower

Morning glory

Nigella

Sunflower

Little gem lettuce

Cherry tomato

Rocket

Italian salad leaves

Salad tomatoes

Cress

Blackberry

Raspberry

Blueberry

Gooseberry

Rocket seed potatoes

Victoria Rhubarb (I want to get more rhubarb types because I love the stuff)

Cara seed potatoes

Allium and Casblanca garlic

Red onions

Elsanta strawberry

Selva strawberry

Green asparagus

Ginger

Plum tomato

Basil

Peppers

Coriander

Chilli peppers

Red arrow broccoli (I plan to get different ones as this is one of my favourite vegetables)

Golden acre cabbage

Nantes carrots

All green bush courgette

Dwarf green curl kale

Lyon leek

Desiree potatoes

Maris Piper potatoes

Moosekraus parsley

Comun parsley

Big max pumpkin

Simple garden cress

De Barletta spring onions

Middleman chives

Cornflowers mix

Strawflowers mix

Carnations mix

Annual aromatic thyme

Violetta lunga aubergine

Simple aromatic dill

Anti slugs and snails mix

​Most of the flowers and some of the salads came in multipack collections such as 'Mexican Salsa', 'Butterflies and Bees', etc. £1 for 6 or more seed packs so that was great.

Still on My Wishlist If I Find Them at a Good Price

I still have a lot of things on my wish list but hadn't found them as cheaply as the other seeds yet, so it might be that I keep an eye on places like Freegle in case anyone with an allotment has seeds going spare or wants to do a seed swap with me. Sometimes you can get free packs of seeds with gardening magazines and I did see that Thompson and Morgan offer free plugs of plants if you pay for postage, but the postage makes it a bit too expensive for me at the moment unless I were to buy some of their other things. They do have seeds for £1 so if I was doing a big order and made use of their 4 for the price of 3, or 10% discount to new newsletter subscribers offers on more expensive plants and seeds then that would certainly be worth looking at. ​

​More types of lavender (for my lavender tea)

More types of brocolli

Roses (for my rose petal and rose bud tea)

Squash

Turnip

Sweet potato

Avocado (I'll probably try and grow this from shop bought avocado)

Lemons

Apples

Oranges

Mushrooms

Swede

Fennel (my favourite in carrot coup and fennel bread)

Camomile (for my tea)

Rosemary

Mint (I love mint tea in summer, different types)

Sage

Oregano

Lemon balm

Pears

Plums

Cherries

Quince

Nettles (great for nettle cordial, tea, soups)

Red currant

Edible flowers mix (pansy, etc)

Catnip and cat grass for my cats

​

My Dream Home

One day when I get my dream home, I'd love to become as self sufficient and off-grid as much as possible so my dream garden would include trees for growing walnuts, brazil nuts, and coffee beans, and I'd also have cocoa trees so I could make my own chocolate. I'd probably try and grow small amounts of things like quinoa and rice too and pineapples and melons and other yummy things. The idea would be to take whatever I grow in my container sacks now, and over time to build on these and invest more as I become better able to care for plants and not kill them. Then keep produce in containers in a big walk in store room by the kitchen so everything was produced on site for me to consume. Now that would be really cool!! A girl can dream:)